Panel Discussion on Land Back Movement, Mitchell Center Talk Series, 3/29/2021
https://vimeo.com/532327575
Title: Restoring Penobscot Language Use: How an English professor is helping access: vital knowledge for a sustainable future
Speaker: Margo Lukens, Professor of English, University of Maine
https://vimeo.com/533672281
Strengthening learning, leadership and equity in Maine shellfisheries
Speakers: Bridie McGreavy, Tony Sutton and Gabby Hillyer, University of Maine
https://vimeo.com/536844328
Talking Circle- Deb Haaland
https://vimeo.com/569460047?1&ref=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR23r8-7TsUXHOfqANYyUlQU-iNJBfbvSsQw7mMnDW-2FkXT-Lgod__T8VU
Kihtahkomikumon (Our Land) - #IsLandBack in Passamaquoddy Territory
https://vimeo.com/537535470?fbclid=IwAR0epV1VeurY1ybCWfG-UeE5YXyZw3CyVDfXpG5SWwYrId2tfk9j6z92Q-8
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
Rumble tells the story of a profound, essential, and, until now, missing chapter in the history of American music: the Indigenous influence.
https://www.rumblethemovie.com/home
Invasion
In this era of “reconciliation”, Indigenous land is still being taken at gunpoint. INVASION is a new film about the Unist’ot’en Camp, Gidimt’en checkpoint and the larger Wet’suwet’en Nation standing up to the Canadian government and corporations who continue colonial violence against Indigenous people. https://unistoten.camp/media/invasion/?link_id=2&can_id=1580e04c9f48e80e340fcbda4844f630&source=email-recording-actions-solidarity-with-indigenous-land-water-defense&email_referrer=email_1019482&email_subject=recording-actions-solidarity-with-indigenous-land-water-defense
Way of the Wabanaki
A short film showcasing the Way of the Wabanaki cultural trips with Penobscots James Francis, Jennifer Neptune, Jason Pardilla & Christopher Sockalexis. Shot on location in Maine.
Available for free streaming at:
https://vimeo.com/483582056?ref=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR3AnJkYwi1vIHZIHFtSpbYq4oGDQjfyvt9Jr8slp-NJhgV06_W3VaICiW4
The Condor and the Eagle
Never-before-seen images expose the global rise of land and water protectors across the Americas. Midst of the burning of the Amazon, the mega-fires in Australia, and the global climate strikes, this award-winning documentary documents the ongoing collective climate awakening and the imperative of urgent change. Facing this overwhelming current political climate, a great many people are looking for answers that are adapted to today’s urgency. As world climate scientists predict unprecedented global catastrophe, “The Condor & The Eagle” features Indigenous women leaders deploying unparalleled global response.
Available for rent at:
https://thecondorandtheeagle.com
We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân
An inspiring story of Indigenous cultural revival. This film tells a powerful Wampanoag story about restoring a language decimated by the reality of colonization—and the hope that this cultural restoration brings for the future. The film's story begins in 1994, when a Wampanoag social worker named Jessie Little Doe began having recurring dreams about familiar-looking people from another time, who were addressing her in a language she did not understand. This began an odyssey that would lead her to receive a Master’s Degree in Algonquian Linguistics from MIT and to found the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project. Today, members of the Wampanoag nation are successfully bringing a language back to life that had not been spoken aloud in more than a century.
Available for rent at:
https://makepeace.vhx.tv/products/we-still-live-here-as-nutayunean
Blood Memory
For Sandy White Hawk, the story of America’s Indian Adoption Era is not one of saving children but of destroying families and tribes. At 18 months of age, Sandy was removed from her Sicangu Lakota relatives and placed with white missionaries over 400 miles from the reservation. Growing up as the only brown girl in a small Wisconsin town, Sandy’s cultural identity was rejected, leaving her feeling ugly, alone and unworthy of love. After a 30-year struggle through abuse and recovery, Sandy set out to restore the missing pieces of her stolen past and reclaim the Sicangu Lakota identity she was taught to disown. She soon discovered that her adoption was not an isolated case but part of a nationwide assimilative movement that targeted Indigenous children. BLOOD MEMORY explores the impact reunification can have on communal healing, as Sandy helps organize the first annual Welcome Home Ceremony for Adopted and Foster Relatives of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe - the community from which she was removed over 60 years ago.
Available for free streaming at:
https://worldchannel.org/episode/arf-blood-memory/
Full & short documentaries and mini-lectures produced by Sunlight Media Collective
Updated regularly and available for free streaming at:
http://sunlightmediacollective.org
Free streaming content includes their award-winning documentary The Penobscot: Ancestral River, Contested Territory Film. The Penobscot: Ancestral River, Contested Territory traverses the landscape of deal-making and deal-breaking which has historically defined tribal-state relations in Maine. Spanning from the 1700's to the present-day legal battle being played out in Penobscot Nation v. Mills, the film illustrates the history of Penobscots' tenacious fight to retain their territory and their inherent, treaty-reserved sustenance fishing rights for future generations. The Penobscot: Ancestral River, Contested Territory features the Penobscot people’s traditional, centuries-long stewardship to ensure a healthy ecosystem for all of Maine. It tells the urgent, inspiring story of a struggle for justice and cultural survival in the face of an astonishingly open abuse of state power.
Available for free streaming at:
https://www.sunlightmediacollective.org/index.php/the-penobscot
Documentaries by the Upstander Project:
Dawnland & Dear Georgina
For decades, child welfare authorities have been removing Native American children from their homes to “save them from being Indian.” In Maine, the first official Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the United States begins a historic investigation. Dawnland goes behind-the-scenes as this historic body grapples with difficult truths, redefines reconciliation, and charts a new course for state and tribal relations. Dawnland aired on Independent Lens on PBS in November 2018 reaching more than 2 million viewers. The film won a national Emmy® Award for Outstanding Research in 2019 and made the American Library Association’s list of 2020 Notable Videos for Adults: “a list of 15 outstanding films released on video within the past two years.”
Viewing options, including upcoming free screenings, available at: https://upstanderproject.org/dawnland
Viewing also available for all Maine Public members here:
https://www.pbs.org/video/dawnland-t0dsij/
Teacher's Guide for Dawnland:
https://upstanderproject.org/dawnland-teachers-guide
https://vimeo.com/532327575
Title: Restoring Penobscot Language Use: How an English professor is helping access: vital knowledge for a sustainable future
Speaker: Margo Lukens, Professor of English, University of Maine
https://vimeo.com/533672281
Strengthening learning, leadership and equity in Maine shellfisheries
Speakers: Bridie McGreavy, Tony Sutton and Gabby Hillyer, University of Maine
https://vimeo.com/536844328
Talking Circle- Deb Haaland
https://vimeo.com/569460047?1&ref=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR23r8-7TsUXHOfqANYyUlQU-iNJBfbvSsQw7mMnDW-2FkXT-Lgod__T8VU
Kihtahkomikumon (Our Land) - #IsLandBack in Passamaquoddy Territory
https://vimeo.com/537535470?fbclid=IwAR0epV1VeurY1ybCWfG-UeE5YXyZw3CyVDfXpG5SWwYrId2tfk9j6z92Q-8
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
Rumble tells the story of a profound, essential, and, until now, missing chapter in the history of American music: the Indigenous influence.
https://www.rumblethemovie.com/home
Invasion
In this era of “reconciliation”, Indigenous land is still being taken at gunpoint. INVASION is a new film about the Unist’ot’en Camp, Gidimt’en checkpoint and the larger Wet’suwet’en Nation standing up to the Canadian government and corporations who continue colonial violence against Indigenous people. https://unistoten.camp/media/invasion/?link_id=2&can_id=1580e04c9f48e80e340fcbda4844f630&source=email-recording-actions-solidarity-with-indigenous-land-water-defense&email_referrer=email_1019482&email_subject=recording-actions-solidarity-with-indigenous-land-water-defense
Way of the Wabanaki
A short film showcasing the Way of the Wabanaki cultural trips with Penobscots James Francis, Jennifer Neptune, Jason Pardilla & Christopher Sockalexis. Shot on location in Maine.
Available for free streaming at:
https://vimeo.com/483582056?ref=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR3AnJkYwi1vIHZIHFtSpbYq4oGDQjfyvt9Jr8slp-NJhgV06_W3VaICiW4
The Condor and the Eagle
Never-before-seen images expose the global rise of land and water protectors across the Americas. Midst of the burning of the Amazon, the mega-fires in Australia, and the global climate strikes, this award-winning documentary documents the ongoing collective climate awakening and the imperative of urgent change. Facing this overwhelming current political climate, a great many people are looking for answers that are adapted to today’s urgency. As world climate scientists predict unprecedented global catastrophe, “The Condor & The Eagle” features Indigenous women leaders deploying unparalleled global response.
Available for rent at:
https://thecondorandtheeagle.com
We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân
An inspiring story of Indigenous cultural revival. This film tells a powerful Wampanoag story about restoring a language decimated by the reality of colonization—and the hope that this cultural restoration brings for the future. The film's story begins in 1994, when a Wampanoag social worker named Jessie Little Doe began having recurring dreams about familiar-looking people from another time, who were addressing her in a language she did not understand. This began an odyssey that would lead her to receive a Master’s Degree in Algonquian Linguistics from MIT and to found the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project. Today, members of the Wampanoag nation are successfully bringing a language back to life that had not been spoken aloud in more than a century.
Available for rent at:
https://makepeace.vhx.tv/products/we-still-live-here-as-nutayunean
Blood Memory
For Sandy White Hawk, the story of America’s Indian Adoption Era is not one of saving children but of destroying families and tribes. At 18 months of age, Sandy was removed from her Sicangu Lakota relatives and placed with white missionaries over 400 miles from the reservation. Growing up as the only brown girl in a small Wisconsin town, Sandy’s cultural identity was rejected, leaving her feeling ugly, alone and unworthy of love. After a 30-year struggle through abuse and recovery, Sandy set out to restore the missing pieces of her stolen past and reclaim the Sicangu Lakota identity she was taught to disown. She soon discovered that her adoption was not an isolated case but part of a nationwide assimilative movement that targeted Indigenous children. BLOOD MEMORY explores the impact reunification can have on communal healing, as Sandy helps organize the first annual Welcome Home Ceremony for Adopted and Foster Relatives of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe - the community from which she was removed over 60 years ago.
Available for free streaming at:
https://worldchannel.org/episode/arf-blood-memory/
Full & short documentaries and mini-lectures produced by Sunlight Media Collective
Updated regularly and available for free streaming at:
http://sunlightmediacollective.org
Free streaming content includes their award-winning documentary The Penobscot: Ancestral River, Contested Territory Film. The Penobscot: Ancestral River, Contested Territory traverses the landscape of deal-making and deal-breaking which has historically defined tribal-state relations in Maine. Spanning from the 1700's to the present-day legal battle being played out in Penobscot Nation v. Mills, the film illustrates the history of Penobscots' tenacious fight to retain their territory and their inherent, treaty-reserved sustenance fishing rights for future generations. The Penobscot: Ancestral River, Contested Territory features the Penobscot people’s traditional, centuries-long stewardship to ensure a healthy ecosystem for all of Maine. It tells the urgent, inspiring story of a struggle for justice and cultural survival in the face of an astonishingly open abuse of state power.
Available for free streaming at:
https://www.sunlightmediacollective.org/index.php/the-penobscot
Documentaries by the Upstander Project:
Dawnland & Dear Georgina
For decades, child welfare authorities have been removing Native American children from their homes to “save them from being Indian.” In Maine, the first official Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the United States begins a historic investigation. Dawnland goes behind-the-scenes as this historic body grapples with difficult truths, redefines reconciliation, and charts a new course for state and tribal relations. Dawnland aired on Independent Lens on PBS in November 2018 reaching more than 2 million viewers. The film won a national Emmy® Award for Outstanding Research in 2019 and made the American Library Association’s list of 2020 Notable Videos for Adults: “a list of 15 outstanding films released on video within the past two years.”
Viewing options, including upcoming free screenings, available at: https://upstanderproject.org/dawnland
Viewing also available for all Maine Public members here:
https://www.pbs.org/video/dawnland-t0dsij/
Teacher's Guide for Dawnland:
https://upstanderproject.org/dawnland-teachers-guide
